Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-09-24
VOL. l..

Major Danilson, this week sold three
building lots To Rev. Mr.. Stewart of
Eagle Rock, who will become a citi.
gen OF BlackfOot next month. This
makes twenty-eight building lots sold
BY the Major in two weeks, and still
the boom is just beginning.
Every Idaho exchange that reached
us this week announced the arrival of
a new baby to some happy parents OF
its town, but ii has been reserved for
the NEWS to announce two babies.
twin girls, born 10 Mr.. and Mrs. Deck
Blackfoot and the News still ahead.
An Ohio wedding was first post.
poned because the girls mother died.
Then the young mans father died;
then the girl broke leg; then the
young man got kicked by a horse:
last week il was postponed again be-
cause the girls father got mangled in
a reaper. Won't they be happy pair
il they ever do get spliced!
II u characteristic Of legislative
bodies one TO enact another amend
and repeal; the next in order is the
repeating body and II they do not
have their hands full there will be a
howl on the part OF oyerburdened
taxpayers that will be louder than
the roaring lion in the mountains of
Hepsadam.
=. y. Shelby for years assistant
general Traffic Manager Of the q. p.
Rs with headquarters at Salt Lake
has been engaged By the Manitoba
as TaEiiic Manager for the Montana
system This is wise stroke Of
policy as Mr.. s is considered one OF
the best railway officers in traffic
methods in the West.
Everything is as quiet as the grave
yard about the Temple Of Justice. The
balances are hanging equipoised. No
suits, no iail breaking, no new prison
ers. and Jani,or Williams huns The
Sword Of Bunker Hill as he daily
plies his work in keeping the hall ia
apple pie order
4 Attention is called to the "ad" ot
u. II. Biethan, Furniture and Hard
I ware dealer, Ia this issue. Fair ant
1 honorable dealings with all, will viii
every time, and by these Mr. BiethaI
has worked up a good trade which h
Justly deserves When y0u wan
goods 10 his line give him call
Salt Lake merchants have an eyl
10 business and know a good advel
tislug medium when they see IL Thi
week We advertise for the old reliabl
Geneva Nursery; those popular grain
flour and paint dealers, Sears & Liddl
and Hulbcrt Bros, carpet weavert
Read their lads and sec what is sal
By them.
W. g Child. senior partner Of Chill
& Son, Ogden, Utah, who have cor
spicuous advertisement in the NEW
happened TO a painful, II not fatal AZ
cidcnt. last Friday. lie was applyin
some Giant powder in drill when th
powder prrinaturely exploded tearin
bath hands to pieces and otherwis
seriously and permanently iniurin
him
A newspaper that thrusts its petit
: grievances. spi,cs, troubles and wo'
. npon its readers in its weekly visits
unworthy Of public patronage hi
il too short 10 he wasted on II
troubles Of one individual, particula
L. as one il forced 10 read them, aii
!, the newspaper man wanders far astrg
and falls short OF his aim when
courts sympathy for bis troubles
hcralding them through his column
I The general reader expects somcthir
n bctter. he demands something bette
4 Dame Rumor significantly win
9 her left eye and hints sub rosa tn
Parson Jones, our popular liveryma
IA about 10 join the order Of Benedict
4 She mystcriously whispers that he
u negotiating for home, and the p'
c chase Of a home hy bachelor is Q
I az the events that casts its shade
& before. The News has consulted
little bird about the matter, but I
/. little net Is mum beyond saying tn
. such a move would be agreeable
: the Parsons feelings ms he once
4 preSsed himself that way in oll
: court and under oath.
The Juvenile entertainment at III
kin's Opera House, Friday evening
: last week. was crowning honor
Il tho ladies under whose auspices
j management It was given, The III
i minims in the military drill, ana
the broom drill, each with It's III
cantain and the larger class IN
,g fnn drill did so exquisitely well '
~ the audience would have been rep
III for their patience If the program
% had ended there, but the recitatlc
he sonrs, Dialogues and tableaux in
Ie- sperscd gave spice and variety
the performances that added !
much more TO the entertainment
~ has been said that man who has
lu s music in his soul and is not mo
" " by the concord Of sweet SOUNDS ! !